High Earth Orbit

A high Earth orbit is a geocentric orbit with an altitude above that of a geosynchronous orbit (35,786 kilometres (22,236 mi)).

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    St. Paul’s words were used by William Blake as an epigraph to The Four Zoas (c. 1800)

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